The Public Health Case for a Universalist Child Tax Credit

In the US, 21% of children, more than 15 million children, live in poverty, far higher than other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.1 A heartbreaking example of structural racism, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous children are 3 times more likely to live in poverty than White children.2 Like lead exposure, child poverty worsens physical, mental, and developmental health, along with education and social mobility, throughout one’s life.2,3 Therefore, reducing child poverty is a major public health goal, but how best to do so is unclear.

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